US Patent Issued to Japan Display on July 21 for "Lighting system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,277, issued on July 21, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Lighting system" was invented by Takeo Koito (Tokyo) and Kojiro Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system includes a light source, a liquid crystal cell for changing a light distribution angle of light emitted from the light source, and a control device for controlling a gradation of the light distribution angle. The control device includes a communication portion for receiving gradation information of the light distribution angle from an information communication terminal, a storage section for storing a weighting coefficient that associates a c...